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Mine did, yes. Grew up in rural Midwest US in the 80s. We walked in lines on a schedule for bio breaks. We had to “shut a door respectfully” basically library

Mine did, yes. Grew up in rural Midwest US in the 80s. We walked in lines on a schedule for bio breaks. We had to “shut a door respectfully” basically library rules for the sake of others. Our school had 25-30 kids per class. How else does one manage that? If you really needed to go you could and this article does not say that’s explicitly disallowed. I think you’re losing the forest for a tree here. The problem is the whole kidnapping & cultural cleansing.

dang 7y ago
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but do need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
- ioror93jf 7y ago
  Stop shadow banning them and I’ll stop creating them. I keep noticing from other browsers that comments never show up so I start over. Also apparently my home IP is on some list and so I hop on LTE. Your own enforcement efforts seem to at least partly responsible for pushing me into this behavior.
  - dang 7y ago
    Sure, happy to do that. Can you email hn@ycombinator.com so we can figure the details?
reaperducer 7y ago
Our school had 25-30 kids per class. How else does one manage that? Dunno. The teachers (nuns, priests, and monks) in my East Coast elementary school had 30-45 students per class, and somehow we didn't run amok. (Yes, 45 was not an uncommon number. When your performance in class is publicly ranked weekly you become acutely aware of how many students are in the class.)
- ioror93jf 7y ago
  What even is the point of contrasting the choices your school made with the ones mine made? To highlight the relative nature of local custom? Is this supposed to be some validation of one or the other? What do you suppose the odds are you’re not entirely remembering every time you got in a line with the entire class for a bathroom trip? We weren’t as organized as the article suggests the kids in question are. You only asked about trips to the bathroom.
paulcarroty 7y ago
Hiding green accounts (tons of automated pro-China posts by Chinese bots) will be much helpful here.
- ioror93jf 7y ago
  Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
- burfog 7y ago
  Although it is true that China would make propaganda posts, there is a much simpler explanation here. Let's go with the simple explanation. People are creating fresh accounts to avoid the wrath of people who support Muslims. You don't have to be generally pro-China to be fully in support of what China is doing. You can hate the Uighers (Muslims) even if you also hate China. When you see your enemies fighting, you can pick the side you find to be less-bad or you can just cheer the fight in the hope that both suffer.
  - ioror93jf 7y ago
    I have no idea what this conversation is even about. Suspect it’s something like someone online came to an iron clad position about my political positions given the 9 seconds worth of information exposure available in my comment history and age of account. The political world has people paranoid in ways I haven’t felt since the 80s Cold War. Glad I grew up isolated in rural America. Despite the Jesus freaks waggling their pious peen in our faces, growing up removed from the contemporary American meme of raging about our exceptionalism has provided me a unique view and capacity for manipulating American ego. Of course I’m a commie cause I don’t talk right online. Even though it’s just cause I didn’t have the emotional framework of “Murcia #1!” rammed down my throat as a kid.
skinnymuch 7y ago
Don’t a lot of schools have classes that big? There was no standing in line for the bathroom as some regular thing. I know it’s not just my memory lying to me. I have a tape where my whole day was recorded. I watch it every once in a while. There’s no standing in line for the bathroom as a class.

dang 7y ago

Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but do need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

ioror93jf 7y ago
Stop shadow banning them and I’ll stop creating them. I keep noticing from other browsers that comments never show up so I start over. Also apparently my home IP is on some list and so I hop on LTE. Your own enforcement efforts seem to at least partly responsible for pushing me into this behavior.
- dang 7y ago
  Sure, happy to do that. Can you email hn@ycombinator.com so we can figure the details?

reaperducer 7y ago

Our school had 25-30 kids per class. How else does one manage that? Dunno. The teachers (nuns, priests, and monks) in my East Coast elementary school had 30-45 students per class, and somehow we didn't run amok. (Yes, 45 was not an uncommon number. When your performance in class is publicly ranked weekly you become acutely aware of how many students are in the class.)

ioror93jf 7y ago
What even is the point of contrasting the choices your school made with the ones mine made? To highlight the relative nature of local custom? Is this supposed to be some validation of one or the other? What do you suppose the odds are you’re not entirely remembering every time you got in a line with the entire class for a bathroom trip? We weren’t as organized as the article suggests the kids in question are. You only asked about trips to the bathroom.

paulcarroty 7y ago

Hiding green accounts (tons of automated pro-China posts by Chinese bots) will be much helpful here.

ioror93jf 7y ago
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
burfog 7y ago
Although it is true that China would make propaganda posts, there is a much simpler explanation here. Let's go with the simple explanation. People are creating fresh accounts to avoid the wrath of people who support Muslims. You don't have to be generally pro-China to be fully in support of what China is doing. You can hate the Uighers (Muslims) even if you also hate China. When you see your enemies fighting, you can pick the side you find to be less-bad or you can just cheer the fight in the hope that both suffer.
- ioror93jf 7y ago
  I have no idea what this conversation is even about. Suspect it’s something like someone online came to an iron clad position about my political positions given the 9 seconds worth of information exposure available in my comment history and age of account. The political world has people paranoid in ways I haven’t felt since the 80s Cold War. Glad I grew up isolated in rural America. Despite the Jesus freaks waggling their pious peen in our faces, growing up removed from the contemporary American meme of raging about our exceptionalism has provided me a unique view and capacity for manipulating American ego. Of course I’m a commie cause I don’t talk right online. Even though it’s just cause I didn’t have the emotional framework of “Murcia #1!” rammed down my throat as a kid.

skinnymuch 7y ago

Don’t a lot of schools have classes that big? There was no standing in line for the bathroom as some regular thing. I know it’s not just my memory lying to me. I have a tape where my whole day was recorded. I watch it every once in a while. There’s no standing in line for the bathroom as a class.